I have this Sweex Sorround sound card PCI and I want to use it for recording / digitalizing / magnetic and other media types through line-in. I have to use that card (or another) because the built-in sound card doesnt work /is broken/.
The soundcard has following chipset - C-Media CMI8738-LX.
So I try to record from the line in input, which works for listening, so line in input is played good through line out then. I dont know if there is a passthrought or sth. however, when I record it, using audacity, or even alsarecord / it doesnt matter / the sound is reported and also actually is too silent and there is a lot of noise. So with that noise, this card is for digitalizing useless.
this soundcard has physically no shared connector with the rear, or bass or whatever. so there are 5 connectors, line in, mic in, front, rear and cent/sub. each for himself. maybe thats the case, that the old ones did have shared one and therefore it breaks the recording or whatever, just a theory. because a few years ago i had an old cmipci and that one worked fine.
just to be clear, there is sound, so it records, the problem is that its too silent and there is a lot of noise in it. i write this note because I saw some reports that suggest that it produces _only_ noise in recording. thats not the case here.